Sergey Belikov - CMB Education

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one or several research papers published (usually) in
the same issue of the journal or in a recent issue of
another journal, placing the results in the context of
ongoing research in the field for broad readership.
Formal Constrains or Instruction for Authors
-The manuscript should be 2 A4 max including references,
in English or Swedish. No cover letter.
-The manuscript should be written at a level which makes
it understandable for your course mates.
-The manuscript should be formatted (font, size, line
spacing) so that it is readable, well structured and
presented in the form easy for reading.
-Headings should be written in bold.
-Page numbering on each page.
Formal Constrains or Instruction for Authors
Your paper falls into two parts:
-The first part of the manuscript is a general
introduction to the subject based on literature search in
the library (one third to half of the paper).
-The second part of the manuscript presents the short
description of the article (one third to half of the paper).
Example of such a description could be found in
Läkartidningen ( Rubrik “Nya Rön”)
This is just an example from Läkartidningen
See link at: http://education.cmb.ki.se
Formal Constrains or Instruction for Authors
-The printed version should start with the title of the
paper, author's name in italics, personal number and
e-mail address (KI). The title should be less than 100
characters and should reflect the content of the paper.
Your paper should have an abstract. It summarizes, in one
paragraph (max 350 characters), the major aspects of
the entire paper.
-The manuscript must contain a Figure, about 4-6 cm wide,
with a Figure legend. Refer to the Figure in the text; the
original source should be acknowledged
Example: Reproduced from (Ref).
100
80
Humans created by
supernatural entity
60
%
believing
40
Human evolved from
20
nonhuman ancestors
No opinion
0
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
Year of survey (Gallup poll)
Fig. 1. Americans’ disbelief in evolution is
stable over time. Reproduced from
http://www.swarthmore.edu.
EXAMPLE
Figure legend
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
2/6/12
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